The search for new antibiotics is going back to the Stone Age. Bioengineers are using AI-based computational methods to mine genetic info from Neanderthals and more.

Neanderthals and humans interbred roughly 50,000 years ago, ... Our Neanderthal DNA may reduce our body's ability to fight infections in this way.

Reviving extinct antibiotic molecules encoded in the DNA of Neanderthals and Denisovans could provide a new weapon in the fight against antimicrobial resistance.. Last year, César de la Fuente at ...

Interestingly, author William Golding flipped the script more than 30 years later with his 1955 novel, The Inheritors, which came out a year after Lord of the Flies, his acclaimed debut novel. The ...

Some Neanderthal gene variants are associated with an increased inflammatory response, which may have helped early humans fight infections and heal wounds more quickly.

The hominins who are our most direct ancestors split from the Neanderthal family tree about 600,000 years ago, then evolved our modern physical characteristics about 250,000 years ago. “From then ...

Neanderthals invented their own bone weapon technology by 80,000 years ago Neanderthals used sleek bone projectiles to hunt big game. Kiona N. Smith – May 1, 2025 1:40 pm ...